2nd ESO_Unit 4

Javier Bardem/ Film Actor

1975 ... first film appearance, in Fernando Fernán Gómez's 'El Pícaro' (The Scoundrel).

1969 ... first English-speaking role with director Alex de la Iglesia's 'Perdita Durango'.

2000 ... performance as Cuban writer and revolutionary Reinaldo Arenas in Julian Schnabel’s ‘Before Night Falls). First Spanish actor to earn Academy Award nomination.

2004 ... Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival for his role in' Mar Adentro'

January 2010 ... first child, son Leo Encinas Cruz.

22nd July, 2013 ... second child, daughter Luna Encinas Cruz.

May 2011 ... Bardem teamed up with The Enough Project's co-founder John Prendergast to raise awareness about conflict minerals in eastern Congo.

2014 ... Bardem and Cruz signed an open letter denouncing Israel's actions as a "genocide".